[OE-core] [PATCH] xz: Correctly specify GPL-3.0 with autoconf exception

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Flanagan, Elizabeth
<elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com> wrote:
> On 30 August 2015 at 17:31, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is m4/ax_pthread.m4 macro which uses GPL-3.0 with autoconf
>> exception, there is no other occurance of GPL-3.0 use, lets mark the
>> licence correctly.
>
> Unless the macro is actually shipped with any of the packages, I don't
> think we actually need to do this. Generally, LICENSE should be the
> intersection of all LICENSE_${PN}*.

its not shipped on target,

>
> I think the correct fix here is actually:
>
> LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & PD"

why did you drop LGPLv2.1+

> LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"
> LICENSE_${PN}-dev = "GPLv2+"
> LICENSE_${PN}-staticdev = "GPLv2+"
> LICENSE_${PN}-doc = "GPLv2+"
> LICENSE_${PN}-dbg = "GPLv2+"
> LICENSE_${PN}-locale = "GPLv2+"
> LICENSE_liblzma = "PD"
>
>
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.1.bb | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.1.bb
>> index e0ae48f..cf7fba6 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.1.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.1.bb
>> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ SECTION = "base"
>>  # which is GPLv3 is an m4 macro which isn't shipped in any of our packages,
>>  # and the LGPL bits are under lib/, which appears to be used for libgnu, which
>>  # appears to be used for DOS builds. So we're left with GPLv2+ and PD.
>> -LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & GPLv3+ & LGPLv2.1+ & PD"
>> +LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception & LGPLv2.1+ & PD"
>>  LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"
>>  LICENSE_${PN}-dev = "GPLv2+"
>>  LICENSE_${PN}-staticdev = "GPLv2+"
>> --
>> 2.5.0
>>
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>
>
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> Elizabeth Flanagan
> Yocto Project
> Build and Release